Comments like that are what international bond fund managers used to hear coming out of the big emerging markets, like in Brazil, when in the late 1990s it appeared that only the International Monetary Fund could save it from an Argentinian-style default.

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For many banks this could be as bad as Plan C (an Argentine-style simultaneous default and devaluation), because losses on bond holdings might imperil their own solvency and further cut them off from market funding.

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To save the financial system in the event of a default, some sort of Argentine-style deposit freeze might be needed.

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Each of these is ranked, eBay-style, using information on their historical default and delinquency rates.

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And when asked whether Greece would default, he insisted that European leaders would not let Greece be a "Lehmans-style event" for the global economy.

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